Mike LeGower
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I am pleased to see that, as the world barrels headlong into the cyberpunk future, we may indeed have street thugs armed with vibroblades
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@fleaflicker There's currently a Call of Duty ad that makes your website basically unusable. At least give us the option to close it.
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8 mostly obvious tips to do research outside of academia (specifically, in gov't):
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In the last 10 days, I lost 400 followers here and gained 3000 on bluesky while posting here and not much there. Am I even? Is posting counterproductive?
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@RyanRadia County-level Median HH income is not available annually before 2005, correct?
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@economeager Is it the right time for this?
Side note: it's always at my fingertips because of a slow trickle of people liking my reply to your tweet.
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@FilmEasterEggs @kris.straub/video/6943993821600419077" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@kris.straub/v…
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In 'Back to the Future' (1985), the name of the mall changed when Marty goes into the past and runs over one of the two trees 🌲
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bro conservatives are insane. just read their replies to this. they think "the machine" you're supposed to rage against is blue-haired they/thems who call you problematic.
Tom Morello@tmorello
Never ceases to amaze me how many folks who’ve heard RATM are in Paul Ryan mode, having literally ZERO understanding of anything that band was about and even less understanding where any of us might stand on contemporary issues. Recently was talking to a couple at a restaurant who were big fans of “Killing In The Name”. The nice lady said, “I love that song. It helped me rage against my parents and later against the jab!” I said, “Ma’am that song is about racist cops who often behave like the Ku Klux Klan in service of historical white supremacy and are boot licking lackeys and thugs of the racist capitalist ruling class.” She sat there chewing and blinking, chewing and blinking.
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@nominalthoughts I used to love that. Just put music on and turn your brain off for awhile.
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The worst thing ever is when you have a large volume of work to do that's straightforward but monotonous
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@rhartman Also, there's absolutely no way that was a fumble from Saquon. Clown refs.
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disproving the infinite monkeys theorem by observing that there are in fact only finitely many monkeys
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@nanglish True, but kids could outnumber the adults who raised them by a significant amount.
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@nanglish FWIW, I don't count a single eligible voter in that whole group
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A frank and productive exchange of views with my counterpart on key issues like expanding the global supply of candy and toys and tightening sanctions against chores.
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"No hiring people over 30 and no analysis samples under 30 observations or else you will need to randomize."
Arjun Khemani@arjunkhemani
.@rabois on the most important lesson he learned from Peter Thiel: You can’t hire anybody over 30. “Peter might not say it exactly the same way today, but basically, what he was trying to say is this: by the time you’re 30, everyone on the planet knows how to assess you pretty accurately. There are enough data points on your resume—back then, it was your resume, and today, it’s your LinkedIn profile—so that everybody can come to a consensus view about your abilities. But if you come to a consensus view about everybody’s abilities, guess what? Google is going to spend a lot of money on that person. Or OpenAI is going to spend a lot of money on that person. Or Meta is going to spend a lot of money on that person. And, when you’re a startup, you can’t outspend large companies that are very profitable or have infinite money like OpenAI. You need to be much more disciplined, much more frugal, and you may not even want to hire these people. The people who are motivated by that much compensation may not even be the right builders. I took that advice with me literally from November 2000, and I’ve been trying to apply it for 24 years now.”
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